"Bob (this one)" > wrote in
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> I bet that's why "pets de nonne" is on all the boxes of little
> pastries in Quebec. Yummy, huh...?

Actually, that would be silly...if you were to put pets de nonnes on
all the pastry boxes in Québec you would be definitely be pegged as
an anglo.

Pets de nonnes are only one thing. They are made from rolled dough
left over when baking pies. You don't make them to sell them. You
make them and eat them. And yes, they are called pets de nonnes and
people DO eat them nonetheless. Perhaps it's because we're not
flaming prudes, eh?

> C'mon, Michel. The word "rape" sounds just like the word "rape." A
> good way not to sell stuff is to call it something offensive.

On the contrary, it is not offensive, only you who sees in it an
offensive sound because you ascribe a single meaning to a word with
at least two meanings, each very different from the other. It sounds
so much like "rip" too, while you're at it. Or "ripe" if you're from
London, or parts of the sound of "crêpe"...I leave it to your
over"ripe" imagination to find more sounds you'd like removed because
you find them offensive, or think others might. Remind me to yawn
when you report back.

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Please note that this post contains no overt anti-USAian statements
of any sort, nor is it designed to excite the political passions of
the morally bankrupt right-wing supporters of the emerging fascist
states...unfortunately :-)